A total of 60,000 people have so far downloaded vaccination certificates, and Identity Malta has expressed confidence that Malta will be able to link up with th
Health Minister Chris Fearne says that 60,000 vaccine certificates have been downloaded in the last week • Lifting of restrictions on some cultural events will be announced on Friday
Valletta’s streets are turning green over the weekend with 80,000 flower pots and plants set up around the capital at the launch of the Valletta Green Festival on Friday.
A quarter of the plants will remain in Valletta once the festival is over on Tuesday, with the rest donated to local councils to repot in their localities.
The festival kicked off on Friday as Culture Minister Jose Herrera, Energy Minister Miriam Dalli and Valletta Cultural Agency chair Jason Micallef unveiled a flower display featuring a turtle in St George’s Square Valletta.
With the theme of zero pollution , Micallef said the eighth edition of the festival is the largest ever and included shrubs and plants along Republic Street as well as a small garden in front of Parliament in Freedom Square.
Look to the Planning Authority for pure business IQ in action
The Skinny | No 85 – Portrait of the Artist With No Business IQ
4 May 2021, 8:39am
What are we skinning? Culture Minister Jose Herrera’s assertion that artists are not in possession of a ‘business IQ’.
Why are we skinning it? Because it’s precisely the kind of avoidable gaffe that is par for the course for our little weekly poundshop-Socratic back and forth.
To be fair, the statement seems intuitively correct to me – artists are not businessmen, isn’t that the myth? Yes, precisely: it’s the myth, the cliche. an overgeneralisation a culture minister should be wary of propagating, let alone spouting in public.
A national culture policy document that is up for public consultation seeks to map out Malta s cultural vision for the next 10 years.
The consultation document, which is open to consultation until April 12, follows months of meetings within the sector with various stakeholders and the drafting by a working group of key experts, Culture Minister Jose Herrera said.
Herrera said the new policy will integrate culture in national development with a global outlook that contributes to sustainable development.
The National Cultural Policy sets eight priorities and outlines 178 policy outcomes implemented through six tools for implementation.
It proposes several ways of strengthening Malta s cultural fabric, from introducing awards for localities which celebrate culture to capping income tax for artists at a 7.5 per cent rate.